The Castle Church Door

Posted by Bob Mattes I posted on the 36th General Assembly proceedings on deaconesses here without duplicating Lanes or TE Aquila’s posts on the subject. My initial thoughts on the issue of female deacons/deaconesses can be found here on GreenBaggins. I wanted to comment in this post on an item in both Overture 9 and the Overtures Committee minority report. The operant phrase in Philadelphia Presbytery’s Overture 9 reads: Scriptural teaching ...

    In my recent travels and conversations, the topics of Dr. Peter Enns' book and the author's relationship with Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia have come up repeatedly.  Dr. Enns is the author of Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament (Baker, 2005), a volume that has provoked much discussion in Reformed and Evangelical circles.  He is also a tenured professor of Old Testament ...

  Well, who would have thought that it would be Pope Benedict XVI who provided one of the strangest `only in America, folks' moments of recent years.  Yet it is undoubtedly true that he has done so.  Benedict is, of course, a pope whose medieval predilections, whether theological, liturgical, or merely sartorial, are well known.  Indeed, some of the more eye-catching outfits he has worn since assuming his current ...

Daniel 1 5/25/2008 Audio Version Once upon a time, there was a man named John, who worked for a building company. They made those massive I-beams that support bridges. He was a very important man, because he signed off after the inspection of these I-beams, so that they could be sent to the construction companies that needed them. If he didn’t sign the papers, then the building company could not sell ...